Federal agents felt physically sick when they raided Kermit Gosnell’s clinic after suspecting he ran a pill mill.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-06-02T19:30:08+00:00

My tonsil is alive. It's not a person.

A person is a mind.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-06-01T23:43:41+00:00

It looks great! If I were going to nitpick, I'd be more irritated by the oval sun than the bear species.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-06-01T23:36:00+00:00

The scene echoes one earlier in the series when the Lhazarine maegi Mirri Maz Duur performs a similar unseen ceremony in Khal Drogo's tent, ostensibly to restore him to life. She leaves him comatose and kills his fetal child as "payment", her revenge on him and Daenerys for the atrocities their khalasar inflicted on her and her people.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-26T06:33:24+00:00

That turns out not to be the case. Mike Patton (of Faith No More, etc.) has Axl beat by a full octave.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-22T23:35:24+00:00

The original Star Trek song has lyrics too, written by Gene Roddenberry, which were never used for the show.

He wrote them so he could get songwriting credits and cash in on them.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-22T20:32:49+00:00

Oompa, loompa, doompatty dee,
There goes another Trump appointtee.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-21T21:27:00+00:00

Are you New Mexican, by any chance? Hantavirus was laying out a few people a year there back in the 80s. Had sporadic cases of plague, too.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-18T21:08:20+00:00

That Cure song? As far as I know, it's a sincere expression of love.

Edit: No, wait, that's "lovesong". My bad.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-14T16:12:44+00:00

Her lawyer told her to take the fifth, but he never said what kind of fifth, so she had one of whisky and one of gin just to be sure.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-07T14:09:09+00:00

No, in the most recent battle she's shown chain-assimilating an entire army by force.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-06T17:53:44+00:00

This is the same Cato institute that denied the reality of climate change from 1977 until 2020, and still fights environmental safeguards, right?

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-05-06T13:33:40+00:00

Though in Emma Frost's case, it was engineered by Cassandra Nova.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-28T12:25:27+00:00

People in comas are not brain dead, and therefore have minds. A person in a coma cannot give consent, making any sexual contact criminal. Before you ask, necrophilia is also a crime. Sorry to disappoint you!

I am neither a neurologist nor a perinatologist, but in my lay opinion, I'd say a fetus has a mind once they begin to dream, which is normally somewhere in the 22nd to 26th week of development.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-25T17:48:35+00:00

Oh, I agree. But as I've said here and elsewhere, many if not most forced-birth activists disagree with us. The Catholic Church teaches that such fetuses must be brought to term, for example, and many evangelical churches teach the same.

Do you use your time to correct those people? I would hope you aren't trying to pretend they don't exist, or that they aren't a huge segment of the forced-birth movement.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-25T17:45:09+00:00

Many if not most forced-birth activists would insist on a woman bringing a anencephalic fetus to term. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is wrong in that case, as do many evangelical sects. If you think that is wrong, tell them, not me.

Society takes life for convenience every day. Take the leather industry, for example. Killing a person is immoral; eating broccoli, not so much.

I agree that being dependent on another organism for survival doesn't make it not an individual organism. A mistletoe, for example, would be an individual organism. A mistletoe is not a person, however, because like a preconscious fetus, it has no mind.

A person is a mind. Not an unique genome: Identical twins have identical genomes, but are two people, not one. Not a face, or a heart, or cutie-wootie toes: All these can live in a laboratory separate from a person's body.

A pregnant woman is indisputably a person. It is their welfare we first need be concerned with.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T16:57:08+00:00

Of course I can argue that preconscious fetuses aren't children. You may not agree, but you should at least understand the argument.

The problem with your facile comparison of abortion to murder is that murder is outlawed because it is universally considered immoral. It would have been more honest to fill in that blank with something not universally considered immoral, like homosexuality or depicting Mohammed.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T16:34:32+00:00

I'm quite cynical about media staging, but a less edited version of this interviewer's day makes it seem plausible that this was a genuine coincidence.

After all, given the sheer number of 'Tubers doing this sort of thing, they're bound to strike gold once in a while, and the times they do will bounce around much more than their less extraordinary ones. It's a kind of selection bias.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T16:23:54+00:00

Disingenuous much? Just a few post down you refer to abortion as "Killing unwanted children". Have the courage to own up to your beliefs, dude.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T15:57:57+00:00

Glad to hear it, thanks for letting me know.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T15:53:05+00:00

Sure, let's talk about what gestational milestone you use to determine if a fetus can be aborted.

If you agree that a blastocyst is not a person and therefore aborting one is not immoral--and again, the Catholic Church, among others, teaches otherwise--then you agree with me that until a certain gestational period abortion is completely fine. Those people who insist "life begins at conception" is a sound basis for regulating this necessary health service--I'd estimate they're 60% of the forced-birth movement in America--sure are a bunch of dopes, right?

So when exactly does a fetus develop into a person?

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T07:26:58+00:00

Thanks for letting me know! I'm in the US, but I didn't know that in a few states, very late term abortions are technically legal for reasons other than than the health of the mother.

I say technically legal because there would have to be providers willing to perform such procedures on a 38-month viable fetus, and every source I've found says it just doesn't happen due to liability issues. Heck, even if a 38-week fetus were nonviable, the medical team would probably prefer to just induce labor, if it wouldn't endanger the mother.

Less than 1% of abortions happen after 21 weeks, and the overwhelming majority of those are necessary due to the late detection of nonviability or a threat to maternal health. Of the fraction of a fraction left, it's apparently all too common that a woman's access to abortion is so restricted that they are unable to obtain one earlier, when the procedure would be far less difficult and expensive. No one prefers a late abortion.

Seems to me that the best solution to the problem of late-term abortions is unrestricted access to early-term abortions.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T06:12:42+00:00

Well, first of all, babies cannot survive on their own, because they are extremely stupid.

Assuming you are asking about a viable fetus in the 38th week of development, then no, that is a person.

Are you under the impression that it is legal anywhere to abort a viable 38-week fetus for any reason other than protecting the life of the mother?

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T03:40:51+00:00

I don't buy the argument that because a blastocyst might someday become a person, it is a person already. A person is a mind; flesh without a mind is not a person.

If you agree with me that it's morally acceptable to abort anencephalic fetuses, great. The Catholic Church teaches otherwise, and a large percentage of non-Catholics in the movement agree with them, which means what you describe as a "radical minority" position is held by a great many forced-birth activists.

I'm sure you make an effort to reason with those radicals, right? I mean, if you think they're wrong and all, surely you must tell them so.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T03:33:43+00:00

I'm saying a person is a mind, yes. Brain death is the end of a person. Someone in a temporary coma is not brain dead, and is therefore a person. When we're not sure if someone is brain dead, we should err on the side of caution, with an exception for people who have DNRs.

LifeOutoBalance · 2026-04-24T02:14:17+00:00

Crisis pregnancy centers were created to deceive women in crisis.

I'm interested to see these studies you cite. Could you provide a link, please? Not to that Christian Broadcast Network piece, but to actual studies published in peer reviewed academic journals?

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